CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 June 1935, Page 6

CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING

Suggestion That N.Z. Farmers Should Form Company CUTTING DOWN OVERHEAD C&S Teiegrapn—cress Association.) DANNEVIRKE, To-day. Speaking at a meeting of farmers at Titree Point, Mr J. Livingston, chairman of the Southern Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Union, after stating that boards and politicians had failed tc find new markets, suggested the forming of a New Zealand co-operative marketing company. “There were supposed to be 60,000 farmers in the Dominion, and if each paid £5, that would mean £300,000, he said. They should buy the best brains and send the best men they could obtain to China and Japan. If they could get trade on a reciprocal basis, then he thought they would be getting somewhere. Whatever they did, it semed to him they had to work on co-operative lines to cut down the overhead of stock and station agents. A rise of one farthing per lb in wool, mutton, and butter would more than recoup the expenditure, he added. To form the company, the farmers themselves had to get behind it. He intended bringing the matter forward at the next Farmers’ Union conference.